“When undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara were asked in a recent survey where they spend most of their time on campus outside of class, the overwhelming majority named Davidson Library as their home away from home. It’s fitting, then, that UCSB on Tuesday celebrated the beginning of the first major expansion and renovation the library has seen in more than three decades. With shovels in hand, UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, university librarian Denise Stephens and others broke ground on the project that, when completed, will make the UCSB Library — and its 3 million volumes and myriad collections — an even more vital academic and cultural resource for the university and the Santa Barbara community.” (via Noozhawk)